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never do without a spot on earth that it can call its own.Sovereign and independent in name, it must be soin reality, before it can effect the purposes for whichit was created. Not to he useful in a small matter,but in great matters was the object of its founder; andhe executed it in the way then effective; and ifhe were in the actual circumstances, the samefaculties of mind which discerned the best in thosetimes, would have well-known how to discover thesurest manner to-day.

In Cattania and various places the order livedsecluded. Powers, who acknowledged our grandmaster to be a sovereign of the second or third class,prescribed his being called only Locum-tenens untilpossessing a sovereignty.

In 1837 the residence was Perrara under Locum-tenens Brusca, whose successor Locum-tenens Can-dida, removed to Eorne, and on his death, was fol-lowed by Locum-tenens Colloredo, relation of himwho in 1840, represented his Imperial Majesty inVienna, the Empress being so by his niece, who asHospitalleress, wore a broad black ribbon and whitecross, which caught the eye at once.

Colloredo too lives in the house that belonged tohis ambassador at Borne. There, with a restricted circleof members, he preserves carefully what remains of theorder’s archives, andhas several uniters, some servants,